Replication of "Compulsory Voting and Income Inequality: Evidence for Lijphart's Proposition from Venezuela" (John M. Carey and Yusaku Horiuchi), Latin American Politics and Society, Vol. 59, Issue 2, pp. 122-144, May 2017. 

* Description: 
What difference does it make if the state makes people vote? The question is central to normative debates about the rights and duties of citizens in a democracy, and to contemporary policy debates in a number of Latin American countries over what actions states should take to encourage electoral participation. Focusing on a rare case of abolishing compulsory voting in Venezuela, this article shows that not forc- ing people to vote yielded a more unequal distribution of income. The evidence supports Arend Lijphart’s claim, advanced in his 1996 presidential address to the American Political Science Association, that compulsory voting can offset class bias in turnout and, in turn, contribute to the equality of influence.

* Files included in this package:

- ReadMe.txt (this file)
- laps2017regression.do
- Figure2.do
- Figure3.do
- "_Prediction" file
-- contains many .csv files generated by laps2017regression.do
- "data" file 
-- contains SWIIDv4_0.dta and pwt80.dta
- "output" file
-- contains many .log and .txt files generated by laps2017regression.do
- Results_PermutationTests(based_on_laps2017regression.do).xlsx

* Program: Stata Version 13.1

* Additional programs required: outreg2 (type command: “ssc install outreg2”)

* Process of Replication:
	(1) Install outreg2 (“ssc install outreg2”)	(2) Run laps2017.do
	(3) Run Figure2.do
	(4) Run Figure3.do* Most Recent Date of Successful Replication: February 16, 2018